Meudon

What to see and do in Meudon

Seven places, five of them free. Filter by what you feel like doing.

Hangar YiReopened 2023

Hangar Y

The world's first airship hangar, built in 1879 from the Galerie des Machines of the 1878 World's Fair. Reopened in 2023 after forty years of silence.

€3 park€12 immersiveRER C
Musée Rodin — Villa des BrillantsFree

Musée Rodin — Villa des Brillants

Rodin's own house and studio from 1895 to 1917, his plaster gallery, and his grave in the garden under a bronze cast of The Thinker.

Free entryWeekends onlyArt
The Observatory TerraceiFree

The Observatory Terrace

A 260-metre terrace built in 1650 on the ruins of a royal château, with the whole of Paris laid out below and the Eiffel Tower straight ahead.

FreeViewpointAll year
Meudon Forest & the Three PondsiFree

Meudon Forest & the Three Ponds

1,086 hectares of oak and chestnut managed by the French Forestry Office, with 130 km of paths and seven ponds — the closest real forest to Paris.

Free1,086 hectares13 km loop
Potager du DauphiniFree

Potager du Dauphin

A seventeenth-century royal kitchen garden, bought by Louis XIV for his son in 1679 and now home to fifteen craft workshops. In 2002 the potager was saved from a hideous real estate development project by the Comité de Sauvegarde des Sites de Meudon and the Franco-Russian community.

FreeCraft studios17th century
Maison de la Nature et de l'Arbre
Free

Maison de la Nature et de l'Arbre

A free environmental centre at the forest edge: seed library, teaching garden, beehives and family workshops.

FreeWith kidsWed · Sat · Sun